Newsgroups: comp.text.tex

>Please provide your suggestions on using the footnote.
>
>The problem I'm facing now is that, I want to avoid Arabic number
>for the footnote index. They look no different than $a^4$. So I
>changed to symbolic footnote index:
>
>\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
>
>But the new problem  I'm facing now is that I've run out of the
>footnote index numbers:
>
>! LaTeX Error: Counter too large.

there are only 10 footnote symbols (or something equally feeble). symbols are only really usable if you number your footnotes per page.

>I can't split my chapter, my Prof asked me to squeeze many of my
>chapters into one. I'm running out of time soon too. So I'd be very
>grateful that you reply earlier. Thanks a lot.

this numbers per page, and replace your \thefootnote command with something that's not fazed by footnote numbers >10 (in case some such appears while it's thinking) — it switches to arabic footnote numbering in this case.

(best get the latest footmisc from ctan: its perpage is more stable than the one you'll likely find in your distribution.)

Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge